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The name Prince was common usage for the ship's actual name Prince of Wales.

This was the second of seven ships to bear the name Prince of Wales and was broken up in 1822.

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On January 26, 1788, they established the first European settlement on the continent at Sydney Cove (now the site of the city of Sydney) in Port Jackson after Phillip decided that Botany Bay was not suitable for settlement due to a...

Prince of England and of Scotland, Duke of York, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

December 14 - Charles III of SpainCharles III (January 20, 1716 - December 14, 1788) was king of Spain from 1759 to 1788.

Like others of her class she was a poor sailor and in 1796 during a refit, Prince was cut in half and lengthened by 17 ft. though without any improvement in her sailing qualities.

She engaged the French Achilles (74 guns) and the Spanish Principe de Asturias (112 guns), and shortly afterwards the Achilles was observed to be on fire in one of the mast tops, probably from the discharge of the muskets of the sharpshooters stationed on the top.

The Prince meanwhile boarded and took the surrender of the Spanish Santissima Trinidad (140 guns) and then took her in tow to try to reach Gibraltar.

HMS Hood (Captain R. Kerr CBE RN), flagship of Vice Admiral L. Holland CB, was at sea during the afternoon of 23rd May 1941, off the south west corner of Iceland.

In company with HMSPrince of Wales, and screened by her destroyers, Antelope, Achates, Anthony, Electra, Echo and Icarus, the force was searching for the German battleship, Bismarck, and her escort, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.

Fire was opened at 05.53 and Bismarck's fifth salvo was mortal; at 06.00 HMS Hood blew up and sank within two minutes in position 63 degrees 20' N,31 degrees 50' W. She took with her the Admiral and 1,416 officers and men.

A new HMS Echo was launched at Liverpool in October 1782, name ship of a class of 16-gun ship-rigged sloops; she was the first vessel specifically designed to carry the new carronades.

The next HMS Echo, the fifth of the name, was a ‘Cruiser’ Class brig-rigged sloop, one of more than a hundred built to the same design; 100 ft length on deck, 382 tons, armed with sixteen broadside 32 pdr carronades and a pair of 6 pdr chase guns.

She was one of the small ships of the Inshore Survey Squadron, with HMS Enterprize and HMS Egeria, and her career was spent in the vital and technically challenging task of hydrographic survey of the seas, sandbanks and coastlines of the East Coast and Eastern English Channel.

John Curtin, who became Prime Minister eight weeks before the Imperial Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor, was finally prompted to adopt the Statute in 1942 after the disastrous Battle of Singapore and the sinking of the HMSPrince of Wales and HMS Repulse.

Prior conservative governments had asserted that British military forces would be able to protect Australia, but Curtin, along with External Affairs Minister Doc Evatt, thought that focusing on an alliance with the United States would be more valuable.

The Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a World War II naval engagement which illustrated the effectiveness of aerial attacks against naval forces that were not protected by air cover and the resulting importance of including an aircraft carrier in any major fleet action.

In December 1782 the ASTREA was cruising in company with her sister ship HMS QUEBEC, and the somewhat larger HMS DIOMEDE, a fourth-rate vessel built the same year as ASTREA.

H.M.S. Two months later on the 22nd of June, while ASTREA was cruising with a fleet of 25 vessels commanded by Admiral Bridport on board the magnificent first-rate vessel ROYAL GEORGE, a French fleet consisting of 23 vessels was sighted.

The only perceptive change occurs close inshore were the current may increase to 0.6 knot in places and far offshore where it has been recorded at the rate of only 0.4 knot during certain parts of the year.

The First Fleet entered the harbour on 26 January 1788, and it could be said, 'the rest is history'.

She was refloated with the assistance of HMS Fly and sailed for port Macquarie on 3 Ocrober 1826.

Refloated withh assistance from HMS Tamar, but found to be unseaworthy, and purchased by the colonial authorities and converted to a prison hulk for convicts awaiting transportation to Norfolk island, Moreton Bay and other penal settlements.

On arriving in North America Guy claimed that Sir William Johnson, the British superintendent of northern Indians, was his uncle but their relationship was probably more distant.

In 1783 he turned over the Indian department to Sir John Johnson, who after 1778 had become Haldimand’s chief adviser on Indian affairs, and returned to England to obtain restitution for property confiscated by the rebels.

There is a portrait of Johnson by Benjamin West in the National Gallery of Art (Washington) and one by an unknown painter in the N.Y. State Hist.